On 2014-03-19 02:23, Dmitry Smirnov wrote:
> Hi Emmanuel,
> 

Hi,

> On Wed, 19 Mar 2014 00:33:50 Emmanuel Bourg wrote:
>> I checked the suggested regexp and I confirm it parses properly the
>> manifest entries. It's a bit sad to add a dependency on perl just for
>> this though.
> 
> Thanks for double-checking my fix. Although I added "perl" to Depends I'm not 
> too sure if we have to add such explicit dependency since Perl is "Priority: 
> standard" and therefore pretty much always installed.
> 
> I feel comfortable with Perl as dependency. I'm not too comfortable with 
> "sed" 
> that is (IMHO) much harder to use not to mention that sometimes it is just 
> not 
> sufficient...
> 
> 
> [...]



Why is "perl" needed rather than "perl-base" (which is essential).  The
patch seems to be using none of the modules from perl or perl-modules

~Niels

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